UConn Gets $5M Pledge to Replace Soccer Stadium & Complex

A 1987 alumnus who played on the UConn soccer team has pledged as much as $5 million on a project to replace the campus soccer stadium and improve the soccer facility at the Storrs campus.

The new facility will be built on the site of the Joseph J. Morrone Stadium and retain the same name. The soccer complex, including the new stadium, existing training grounds and a practice field, will be named the Rizza Family Soccer Complex, according to an article Monday in UConn Today, an official UConn publication.

Tony Rizza, senior managing director of Columbus Circle Investors Inc., a Stamford investment advisory firm with $16.6 billion in assets and 65 employees, has already given UConn $3 million

“This gift is my way of recognizing coaches, faculty, and campus staff who helped me while I was at UConn, and it’s a small way of saying thank you,” Rizza said, according to UConn Today.

According to the Associated Press, the newly announced gift will add another in a growing list of planned or completed sports facility projects at UConn, which includes:

A $40 million basketball training center

A hockey arena

Facilities for baseball and softball.

Photo from UConn Today